On a rainy weekday morning, the luxury shopping outlet Bicester Village feels deserted.
While February is typically a quiet time for the Oxfordshire retail village, staff the BBC spoke to said visitor numbers were much lower than usual.
Cut-price handbags and coats draw thousands of Chinese tourists to the retail outlet each year.
But the number of those diagnosed with coronavirus in China has spiked, and this has taken its toll on popular tourist destinations.
